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Connecticut not following New York s lead with Amazon lawsuit over COVID safety protocols
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FILE - In this March 30, 2020 file photo, workers at Amazon s fulfillment center in Staten Island, N.Y., gather outside to protest work conditions in the company s warehouse in New York. Amazon is facing a lawsuit from the New York Attorney General’s office that claims the online shopping powerhouse didn’t provide adequate health and safety measures for workers at its New York facilities during the coronavirus pandemic and took retaliatory action against multiple employees. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press
GOP Senators Led by Ted Cruz Urge Congress to Probe Andrew Cuomo s Nursing Home Scandal
On 2/17/21 at 9:36 PM EST
Ted Cruz leads a contingency of nine Republican senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee who have called upon committee chairman Dick Durbin to launch an investigation into New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s nursing home scandal.
The GOP members wrote a letter to Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday, urging him to schedule hearings for the Cuomo administration s alleged withholding of the number of nursing home COVID-19 deaths. The American people deserve to know the extent to which Governor Cuomo and his senior staff violated the civil rights of New York seniors, lied to the Department of Justice about their actions, and violated federal civil and criminal laws in the process, the letter stated, according to the
DeRosa holds the title of secretary to the governor.
“Basically, we froze,” she said during a Feb. 10 teleconference with Democratic lawmakers, referring to providing data requested by the Legislature after the U.S. Justice Department inquired about similar data.
“Because then we were in a position where we weren’t sure if what we were going to give to the Department of Justice, or what we give to you guys, what we start saying, was going to be used against us while we weren’t sure if there was going to be an investigation,” DeRosa said,according to audio recording of the call first obtained by the New York Post. “That played a very large role into this.”